In the week Jenny Erpenbeck won the #InternationalBookerPrize catch her on the @fictionable#podcast recalling the fall of the Berlin Wall and discussing her prizewinning novel Kairos, translated by Michael Hofmann.
4 Short Story Collections for any horror fan! #anthology#shortstories!
Unlocking the Darkness
amazon.com/dp/B0B7QDV7WC
Tales of the Sanguine Elixir
amazon.com/dp/B09Q1MRB2J
Beyond the Stones
Vol One
amazon.com/dp/B0CW1JY7TM
Vol Two
amazon.com/dp/B0CTHRLLSX
Big Barrel is off to the dumpster to get some grub. Jakub Żulczyk draws a picture of decline in Many Years of Hardships, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff.
This may be a silly question, but how does one actually read short story collections? Is it the same as if reading a novel? Do you put the book down between every story? Do you look for connections between the stories? Am I supposed to read them linearly?
4 Short Story Collections for any horror fan! #anthology#shortstories!
Unlocking the Darkness
amazon.com/dp/B0B7QDV7WC
Tales of the Sanguine Elixir
amazon.com/dp/B09Q1MRB2J
Beyond the Stones
Vol One
amazon.com/dp/B0CW1JY7TM
Vol Two
amazon.com/dp/B0CTHRLLSX
Jenny Erpenbeck opens #Spring 2024 with Sloughing Off One Skin, a haunting #ShortStory that explores truth and identity, translated by Michael Hofmann.
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We're on the lookout for perspectives that are currently under-represented on bookshelves in the UK and in the US, and material first written in languages other than English.
#Spring 2024 is here, with Jenny Erpenbeck – translated by Michael Hofmann – following a paper trail while Jakub Żulczyk, translated by John and Małgorzata Markoff, constructs a small epic. Grahame Williams examines a life without a plan and Lauren Caroline Smith tests her faith. Rose Rahtz reads the signs and Caroline Lucas makes the case for compelling and inspiring stories.
So here's a little taste of the marvellous #ShortStories from Jenny Erpenbeck, Jakub Żulczyk, Grahame Williams, Lauren Caroline Smith and Rose Rahtz for #Spring 2024.
Rod Serling, creator of "The Twilight Zone," spent three years as a paratrooper during WWII, and was awarded both a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart. He later said that his writing career helped him get the war "out of his gut." Shortly after he returned from the Philippines, where he was stationed, he wrote "First Squad, First Platoon," a short story which is being published for the first time today in The Strand. NPR spoke to his daughter, Jodi and his biographer, Nicholas Parisi, about the story and how it's connected to Serling's real experiences. To read "First Squad, First Platoon," you'll need to buy the current issue of The Strand or subscribe to the magazine.
The #TBR tin has spoken.
Next read for fiction:
Great tales of detection has 19 short stories selected and introduced by Dorothy L. Sayers. This collection was originally published in 1936, but it's still easy to find this more "recent" edition from Everyman.
Sayers edited several short stories collections and besides the interesting stories, she also wrote insightful introductions about the history and development of the genre.
I'll be using an Oxford related bookmark.
Next read for non-fiction:
Howdunit is a collection of essays about the genre and the work of detective, crime, thrillers authors. The articles are all from the past and present members of The Detection Club, organised and edited by Martin Edwards.
Bookmark from the Portuguese edition of The Floating Admiral, also a The Detection Club work.
As a boy, the cartoonist Peter Kuper dreamed of studying bugs. He explains how he managed to combine his passion for drawing and his fascination with insects.
4 Short Story Collections for any horror fan! #anthology#shortstories!
Unlocking the Darkness
amazon.com/dp/B0B7QDV7WC
Tales of the Sanguine Elixir
amazon.com/dp/B09Q1MRB2J
Beyond the Stones
Vol One
amazon.com/dp/B0CW1JY7TM
Vol Two
amazon.com/dp/B0CTHRLLSX